Non-working non-root install

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Fri Sep 4 08:10:52 PDT 2009


On Sep 2, 2009, at 10:41, Perry Lee wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> > Can somebody please test what happens when they run this script on  
> their
> > system? It will not affect your current MacPorts install. The  
> version of
> > the script attached to this email is updated so that you don't  
> need to
> > enter your username manually.
>
> I just ran the script on my system (also a clean install of Snow  
> Leopard). Following is the output from `$PREFIX/bin/port install  
> zlib`:
[snip]
> Error: Target org.macports.install returned: could not set  
> attributes of "/tmp/mp/var/macports/software/zlib/1.2.3_2/tmp/mp/ 
> share/man/man3/zlib.3.gz": permission denied

Ok, so Perry sees the same issue I did. Bryan, can you try my script  
on your system and see if you see it too?



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